New Stampin' Up Cards!

I spent part of today with a friend making cards with active Stampin' Up stamp sets.  Here are the fruits of my labor.

Button Buddies Card w/ flower buttons.

STAMPS:  Button Buddies, Elements of Style
CS:  Tempting Turquoise, Whisper White, Wild Wasabi, Tangerine Tango, Daffodil Delight
MARKERS:  Tangerine Tango, Wild Wasabi, Real Red, Daffodil Delight, Tempting Turquoise
OTHER:  Scallop Edge punch, Brights Buttons

An Elements of Style card.

STAMPS: Elements of Style

CS:  Pink Pirouette, Very Vanilla

INKS:  Basic Black, Basic Gray

MARKERS:  Old Olive, So Saffron, Pink Pirouette, Pretty in Pink (for flowers)

                       Basic Gray, Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose and Melon Mambo (for hummingbird)

Button Buddies Card #2

This card uses some of the new In-Color Colors.

STAMPS: Button Buddies, Friendly Phrases

CS:  Raspberry Ripple, Whisper White

INKS:  Primrose Petals, Marina Mist, Raspberry Ripple, Daffodil Delight, Gumball Green

OTHER:  Curly Label Punch, 3/8" Stitched Satin Ribbon in Gumball Green

Another Elements of Style Card

STAMPS: Elements of Style

CS:  Crumb Cake, Not Quite Navy, Very Vanilla

INKS:  Not Quite Navy

OTHER:  Square Lattice EF, Big Shot, 1" circle punch, 1 1/4" circle punch, Rhinstones

Button Buddies Pigs

 This is a silly card that I CASEd.

STAMPS: Button Buddies, Petite Pairs

CS:  Basic Black, Whisper White

INKS:  Basic Black, Pretty in Pink

OTHER:  Buttons, Beautiful Wings Embosslits, Rhinestone

Mixed Bouquet Card

STAMPS: Kindness Matters, Mixed Bouquet

CS:  Cajun Craze, So Saffron, Very Vanilla, Comfort Cafe DSP

INKS:  So Saffron, Cajun Craze

OTHER:  Stripe EF,  Big Shot, 1" circle punch, 3/4" circle punch, Modern Label Punch, Dimensionals

Banjo

I haven't blogged about our pet.  Banjo is a 16 yr old senior citizen cat.   I found him as a kitten outside my workplace many moons ago.  He'd recently been not his usual self, so off to the vet we went.

The vet was concerned about him too, so they drew blood and updated Banjo's vaccinations. Later the same day, the vet called w/ the results of the blood work and it seems that kitty B had a very high white blood cell count. The vet said Mr. B needed antibiotics -- I had a choice of liquid meds, pills to give a cat (HA!) or an injection.  I chose the injection...duh!

Mr. B is doing so much better now!  We are all happy that our kitty-boy is enjoying life again.

It's May already!?!

Where does the time go? So far this month, I've been working on my Stampin' Up Business. The retiring stamp and accessories lists are out and so I've decided to host a retirement party. To that end I've been creating cards with retiring stamps and accessories. The black science fair board is almost finished. I'll put the last dozen or so cards on it tonight and it will be ready for stamp club tomorrow night. The other thing that has taken up most of this month is my father-in-law. He is 92 yrs old and is on blood thinner. On Monday evening of last week, he tried to stop elevator doors from closing w/ his hand. He didn't have enough strength in his had to stop the doors, so they closed on his hand. The skin did not break, but a blood vessel in his hand did. He waited about 36 hours before he called my hubby to take him to the ER. Lots of tests later, they decided to admit him so he can have surgery to remove the semi-coagulated blood that is now in his fingers, hand and lower arm. Hubby said he looked like he'd had a zombie arm attached midway between shoulder and elbow. That's about the best description I've heard. So F-I-L has had two surgeries...on Thursday and again on Saturday. WIth all the swelling in his hand, the skin on the back of his hand (about the size of a 50 cent piece) has died. He will need a skin graft to fix that. So today hubby spent the day w/ his parents at the hospital, calling and visiting rehab hospitals and choosing one. He's tired from being at the hospital and I so understand that. That's the May-so-far update.